ABOUT MARGARET ASHMORE

Margaret is an artist, an author, and a speaker with a primary focus on pushing women toward Christ for fulfillment of all their needs.

In my travels I find countless women, who like the woman “incurably sick for 12 years had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse.” (Mark 5:26) They are weary of the superficial healing they are receiving from the talk shows, the latest pop psychology trend or even in some churches. But when they hear that Jesus Christ is sufficient for every need of the human heart, indeed the great Physician and mighty Counselor, able to heal and restore and give eternal life the joy cannot be contained! It is my deepest desire to see godly women raised up and equipped by the Word of God to understand His design and purpose for women, whether single or married with children – and to counsel them in the blessed confines of the Scriptures alone so that they would discover Christ’s all sufficient grace.

Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:25,26

Remembering Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot was born Elisabeth Howard in Brussels, Belgium on December 21, 1926, and her family included her missionary parents, four brothers, and one sister. Elisabeth’s brothers, Thomas Howard and David Howard, are also authors. Her family moved to the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the U.S. when she was a few months old. In addition to Philadelphia, she lived in Franconia, New Hampshire and Moorestown, New Jersey. She studied Classical Greek at Wheaton College, believing that it was the best tool to help her with the calling of ultimately translating the New Testament of the Bible into an unknown language. It was at Wheaton where she met Jim Elliot. Before their marriage, Elisabeth took a post-graduate year of specialized studies at Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada, where a campus prayer chapel was later named in her honor. Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard went individually to Ecuador to work with the Quichua (or Quechua) Indians; the two married in 1953 in the city of Quito, Ecuador. In January of 1956, her husband Jim was speared to death along with four of his missionary friends while attempting to contact the Waorani tribe. Their daughter, Valerie (born February 27, 1955), was 10 months old when her father was killed. Elisabeth continued her work with the Quechua for two more years,

“I have known Margaret since 1998. While staying with her in the Dallas area, I attended one of her conferences and could hear a woman who knows that the cross is the gateway to joy. Her teaching, imbued with the sufficiency of scripture is indeed – a tour de force”!

– Elisabeth Elliot, Magnolia, Mass

Margaret Ashmore speaks on a variety of topics that impact the hearts of women with the goal to impact their lives.